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The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
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Nicholas Wapshott · 400 pages
As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein · 619 pages
**The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism** is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of "shock therapy". This centers on the exploitation of national crises (dis
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
William Greider · 798 pages
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Mark Blyth · 288 pages
A history of austerity, an explanation of austerity-based economic policies, an examination of the results of applying austerity-based economic policies, and a determination why those policies failed.
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
Kevin Phillips · 496 pages
"For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. Now he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century.". "The Second Gilded Age has been staggering
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson · 496 pages
Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As *Why Nations Fail* shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-mad
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David A. Stockman · 743 pages
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes · 466 pages
This imaginative illustrated edition brings to life one of the most devastating periods in our nation's history--the Great Depression--through the lives of American people, from politicians and workers to businessmen, farmers, and ordinary citizens.
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
David Harvey · 256 pages
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 56 pages
"The Communist Manifesto," penned by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is a revolutionary treatise advocating for the overthrow of capitalist systems and the establishment of a classless society. Published in 1848, its succinct yet powerful prose remains a cornerstone of socialist ideology, inspiring movements worldwide.
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin · 885 pages
Chronicles the history of the oil industry and the forces that have shaped the modern world.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber · 542 pages
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided into debtors and creditors. For 5,000 years debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates, laws and religions. The words “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption” come from ancient debates about debt. These terms and the ideas of debt shape our most basic ideas of r
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Paul Kennedy · 677 pages
El eminente historiador Paul Kennedy analiza y describe el auge y la caída de las grandes potencias a lo largo de los últimos cinco siglos. La nación proyecta su poder militar según sus recursos económicos, pero el alto coste de mantener la supremacía militar la precipita a la decadencia. las grandes potencias en crisis reaccionan gastando más en defensa y se debilitan desviando recursos productiv
Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Bob Woodward · 279 pages
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
Joe Studwell · 360 pages
A provocative look at what has worked - and what hasn't - in East Asian economics. It explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in Japan Korea and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China, while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in south-east Asia down the economic river.
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis · 224 pages
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics. Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
Barry Eichengreen · 215 pages
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Alan S. Blinder · 476 pages
Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history--books written quickly to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, held off, taking the time to understand the crisis and create a truly comprehensive and coherent narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the governm
Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures
Michael Goodwin, David Bach, Joel Bakan · 304 pages
A guide to the economy in graphic novel format traces the history of Western economic thought from its beginnings to the world economy in the twenty-first century.
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson · 402 pages
What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six thing
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse
Thomas E. Woods Jr. · 194 pages
Historian Woods, writing as a libertarian, argues that government intervention in the economy actually caused the housing bubble.
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner · 592 pages
From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression.
India Unbound
Gurcharan Das · 420 pages
"India today is a vibrant free-market democracy and has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy and on the world stage. Now, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das traces India's recent social and economic transformations in an eminently readable, impassioned narrative.". "Das tells the stories of the major players in a period of rapid and profound change - from schoolchildren insp